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Oscar Ogg papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 11995

Content Description

Addition 4 to MSS 11995 contains newspaper & advertisement clippings, periodicals (The Christmas Reader and The Committee for italic Handwriting Newsletter, book reviews by Oscar Ogg, book cover mock-ups, ink & water color drawings, illustrations of calligraphy, and correspondence. Included are “typofile” and italic scripts handwriting. There is personal information including Squire Ogg’s grade school report on the human body & one piece of art, one small notebook, religious art, photographs and photograph albums.

Addition 5 to MSS 11995 Oscar Ogg papers contains five oversize items: a pencil graphic design sketch with a slogan on advertising in 1950 and the heart of America; a poster that chronicles some of the changes and developments with machines in the areas of papermaking, printing, type casting and setting, and stereotyping, along with a handwritten memorandum note from The New York Times Index; a print of selections from Orlando by Virginia Woolf; a print of a poem on yellow roses by an unknown author; and a print of a quote by Rabbi Liebman. Various artwork, photographs, clippings, and papers related to Oscar Ogg's work and family life. Articles about calligraphy and teaching children calligraphy.

Dates

  • Creation: 1936 - 1967

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Oscar Ogg was an American writer and calligraher. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1908 and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1931. He worked for the Book-of-the-Month club and also studied, lectured on, and practiced calligraphy in New York. In 1946, his book The 26 Letters was published by Crowell. This was a history of the alphabet from Phoenician times to the present. Ogg developed typefaces and fonts still in use in the 21st century. He died in 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Full Extent

.2 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift from Margaret Ogg to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library.

Title
Guide to the Oscar Ogg papers
Status
Completed
Author
Rose Oliveira, Accessioning Archivist
Date
22 March 2022
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository

Contact:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States